"There's part of our brain that we shut off when we're in the studio. There's part of our brain that we turn on when we are out doing an interview or promoting something or waking up at six in the morning for hair and makeup."
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"I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people."
"Faith Hill is a big role model."
"I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet."
"A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents."
"I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning."
"In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is."
"Fans are my favorite thing in the world."
"Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism."
"Life is like walking you take one step at a time."
"I keep one eye on the path I didn't choose every day."
"All I ever do is learn from my mistakes so I don't make the same ones again. Then I make new ones."
"I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'"
"I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future."
"I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are."
"I've always strived to be successful, not famous."
"I love trying to beat what I've done so far."
"I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test."
"I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders."
"Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty."